Two newchapters have been released on the trylinuxSD.com website titled "KDE Tips & Tricks in Mandrake 9.0" which offer some KDE3 tips that may not be so obvious to new users. Although the pages are geared toward Mandrake Linux 9.0, much of the content should also apply to anyone using KDE. Please note: The site makes extensive use of screenshots, so dialup users be warned.

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Unfortunately bug #45673 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45673 drives me nuts when it is turned on. Maybe it is just because I have a messy clutter of open windows all the time, but I am constantly triggering previews that don't stop until I wave my mouse back over the correct window. I usually have to turn it on and ass I need it.

But this is definitly a killer feature. When I am picking songs for a cd I can just hover, drag, and drop.

IMHO, all these tricks should be documented - just so that the developers themselves be aware of what exists and what may be unintentionally damaged when doing changes. There are a lot of usable features in KDE not even all developers know about - such as drag & drop to taskbar button to bring the window upmost. This function was dropped when "window grouping" was introduced, and re-inserted later.

at work so I don't have KDE in front of me, but roughly, you need to add a viewer for the appropriate mimetype, which is inode/blockdevice unless there's something more DVD specific - you'll know you've found it when you find mplayer as the handler for it :)

yes, that's good. and it goes along well with holding down the shift key and scrolling the mouse wheel up or down to adjust the zoom level. when reading lengthy pages, i'll often zoom to the right size and then start it autoscrolling...

And CRTL stops it, or you can arrow in the opposite direction until it slows down to a stop.

But very cool, in IE I would click on the mouse wheel for that little circle with the arrows in it, postion the cursor close to the bottom of the circle and I could have it scroll slowly that way. But this is much easier to use.

And now, playing with this text box, shift-up or shift-down highlights a line. CRTL-K deletes a line, but it doesn't copy the line the way pico/nano does. I wouldn't suggest this as an idea since then I would probably get the ever present "code it yourself" message.

We should only push distos that are KDE only. These gtk based distros are just poorly done and inconsistent. Think Lycoris and Xandros and Lindows. No gtk configs and all KDE. Now if we could just get these KDE only distros to get off there butts and start KDE development :) Maybe an email campaign is in order or a web petition or something.
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In Mandrake 9 (and maybe even as early as 8), when you start KDE none of the environment variable stuff handled in /etc/profile is done. So, system variables like PATH aren't set correctly as they are under Gnome or with virtual terminals. Does anyone know the tip or trick to fix this? It's *so* annoying!

is my favorite. It gives much of my work environment at my fingertips. Google, Rpmfind and my own shortcuts for the intranet wikis, cvs, commonly used documentation etc. Five taps on the keyboard and it's there.

Thank you for having helped me to use GUI effects !!!
Now, I would like the icons of my KBar to appear in 72 x 72, and make them grow to 128 x 128 with my mouse (like Mac OS X...). Can you help me ? Because 48 x 48 is really too small.
Thanks you so much !!!